The James Webb Telescope's gold mirrors aren’t just for looks—they’re a scientific marvel. Gold reflects up to 99% of ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Leo P, a galaxy once dormant, has reawakened to form stars again, offering new clues about the universe's earliest galaxies.

The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

From magnification to light-gathering, here’s how to make the decision between buying a telescope or a monocular for ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have imaged individual stars in the Dragon Arc galaxy thanks to ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope, slated for a 2027 launch, will provide insights into dark energy and exoplanets. It will ...